My disasterous night continued with a savage beating at the hands of this allied player - the game turned on its head in one horrible moment.

Scouting went well for me - I killed off practically all his dogs and prevent him from scouting me out (although he probably guessed what I was going to do). I scouted out all of his base - or so I thought at the time.

At this point I thought it was going to be a bit of a walk over to be honest - I was queing straight tanks and had my second refinery down, harvesting the gems. I repaired the bridge with an engineer, sending me 5 rhinos over (his 4 grizzlies beat a hasty retreat). He had gone for one miner out of war fac, but I thought I would still comfortably overcome him at this point.

I started moving down the cliff towards his base, preparing to do battle. All of a sudden, as if from nowhere, sprang 6 rocketeers - heading straight towards my war factory. He had stretched his war fac, afc and then another barracks out of my vision. I started queing a flak - it managed to kill 4 of them before he destroyed the factory. I had been building another one whilst this was going on - and clicked on the ground to place it, but he blew up my barracks with a paradrop at the same time. I was in a mess now - my tanks were out-tanked and getting hammered after a vain attack to demolish his base.

I was really surprised to lose this one - I just hadn't seen the rocketeers coming (his economy control must have been excellent). The paradrop was perfectly timed and placed just to cap things off.